Changes people experience at different stages of their lives can affect an evolving sense of self.
Knowledge
Type in http://kidshealth.org/kid/
Put self-esteem in the search bar. Read 3 articles relating to the topic to build knowledge.
Concepts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Self.jpg
Use the four categories of the self to create an image of oneself that shows a sense of self by identifying how much influence each part has had in two different phases of one's life, past and present.
Use the student guidelines to plan out research for the week that will be used to strengthen background knowledge before making the CI and LOI.
Concepts
Frame the initial problem as a super hero against a villain. For example, Taxes vs. Underfunded Education. i.e. Responsibility vs. Form
TD Skills
Library lesson on advanced OPAC searching to improve our research skills for both fiction books and non-fictions books that complement the unit.
Students will formulate questions that will drive the investigation phase.
Attitudes
Analyze the essential elements to figure which ones will help us to develop independence.
Action
How the World Works
The student will understand that
understanding the relationship between the earth and the solar system enables us to make technological changes.
Knowledge
Sort variables into qualitative and quantitative categories.
1. Use key vocabulary from the scientific method
consistently in discussion and written work.
2. Conduct an experiment to see if a hypothesis is true.
3. Follow the scientific method on at least one occasion.
Propose a new technology that will solve a problem on the earth whose existence relies on our knowledge of the relationship between the earth and the solar system.
Concepts
Determine how the variable in your experiment is changing .
Make a change to your experiment that will produce a different outcome.
TD Skills
Attitudes
Make a guide book for future scientists explaining how commitment is a major aspect of scientific work.
Action
Analyze the data collected about children wearing sunscreen.
Promote the use of sun screen in school during the summer months.
Create a campaign that will get children to commit to wearing sunscreen regularly and determine a way to measure it.
How We Express Ourselves
The student will understand that media is a powerful tool that influences the decisions people make.
Knowledge
Use your knowledge of characters to make an iMovie.
If FDR were the globe, calculate how many students would be moved out of their class each day.
Develop criteria to determine when someone should no longer be considered an immigrant. Develop criteria for who should and should not be allowed into a country.
Use what you know about migration to write a script
that will be produced. The script should entertain the audience and teach it about a migratory event
showing at least two perspectives.
Brainstorm 10 problems that will occur and solutions for 2 of them to show change.
TD Skills
Write an analysis of the impact on people that a tsunami had.
Use dialectical thought to show what is good about a country that someone moved
to and what is bad about the
country they went to.
Attitudes
Develop the targeted attitudes by having the children move closer and closer together over the course of a week so that they experience urbanization in the classroom.
Action
How We Organize Ourselves
The student will understand that government systems influence the lives of citizens
Knowledge
Students will work in groups to ​plan how they will create laws for an artificial island that they occupy and govern.
Concepts
Students read and evaluate different political perspectives. Then they will locate themselves on a political spectrum.
TD Skills
Read a book about US history to show comprehension of a law that turned out to be inferior. i.e. Women's Right to Vote, The Boston Tea Party, The Declaration of Independence.
Attitudes
Students will organize their tables into semi-autonomous areas with a table captain. They will have to demonstrate cooperation both in setting it up and consistently maintaining it during the unit.
Action
Determine how the variable in your experiment is changing.
Put self-esteem in the search bar. Read 3 articles relating to the topic to build knowledge.
Use the four categories of the self to create an image of oneself that shows a sense of self by identifying how much influence each part has had in two different phases of one's life, past and present.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/us/an-arid-arizona-city-manages-its-thirst.html?src=rechp&_r=0
understanding the relationship between the earth and the solar system enables us to make technological changes.
consistently in discussion and written work.
2. Conduct an experiment to see if a hypothesis is true.
3. Follow the scientific method on at least one occasion.
http://fluency21.com/blog/2013/06/24/the-worlds-last-telegram-will-be-sent-next-month/?utm_source=Committed+Sardines&utm_campaign=5358d25f36-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f244ccc9d2-5358d25f36-189021782
Build knowledge about internal, forced, rural to urban migration by reading the articles and watching the video.
If FDR were the globe, calculate how many students would be moved out of their class each day.
Develop criteria for who should and should not be allowed into a country.
Identify some of the change occurring in Peru with regards to rural to urban migration.
http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-more-women-than-men-migrate-to-cities-100213
that will be produced. The script should entertain the audience and teach it about a migratory event
showing at least two perspectives.
Brainstorm 10 problems that will occur and solutions for 2 of them to show change.
Use dialectical thought to show what is good about a country that someone moved
to and what is bad about the
country they went to.
Determine how the variable in your experiment is changing.